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===Xinjiang Great Purge===
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The pro-Soviet leader [[Sheng Shicai]] of [[Xinjiang]] province in China launched his own purge in 1937 to coincide with Stalin's Great Purge. The [[Xinjiang War (1937)]] broke out amid the purge.<ref>Allen S. Whiting and General Sheng Shicai. "Sinkiang: Pawn or Pivot?" Michigan State University Press, 1958</ref> Sheng received assistance from the NKVD. Sheng and the Soviets alleged a massive Trotskyist conspiracy and a "Fascist Trotskyite plot" to destroy the Soviet Union. The Soviet Consul General [[Garegin Apresov|Garegin Apresoff]], General [[Ma Hushan]], [[Ma Shaowu]], Mahmud Sijan, the official leader of the Xinjiang province Huang Han-chang and [[Hoja-Niyaz]] were among the 435 alleged conspirators in the plot. Xinjiang came under virtual Soviet control.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=fascist+trotskyite+plotters|title=Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949|author=Andrew D. W. Forbes|year=1986|publisher=CUP Archive|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0521255141|pages=151, 376|access-date=31 December 2010}}</ref>